We hope everyone is staying healthy during this chaotic pandemic. To help avoid misinformation and to calm any panic, we wanted to bring you information about your drinking water and how to stay healthy.
Most people don’t think of lead as a problem in today’s day and age, particularly when it comes to their drinking water. However, even though we’ve stopped using lead in our water pipes and fixtures today, there are still decades worth of old pipes across the country transporting our water. Read more…
In today’s water safety debate, one question rises above all the others: Does it make sense to chlorinate water? This debate has actually been raging for more than two decades, with one side arguing for clean water (chlorine) and the other side arguing for chemical-free water. You would think, with Read more…
Water is considered “hard” when it has above a standard level of dissolved minerals in it, most especially calcium and magnesium. The degree of hard water depends on the milligrams per liter or parts per million of combined calcium and magnesium ions in the water. We can provide you with Read more…
Lead contamination is more common in municipal water supplies than you might think! Despite this typically being a problem of the past, old pipes may either still contain lead sections or lead remnants. We’ve collected a bunch of information regarding all of the surveys that have been done over the Read more…
Iron is one of the most common contaminants in modern tap water, second only to hard water minerals and chlorine left in by municipal water treatment processes. While it’s nearly impossible to drink enough iron-filled water to make yourself sick (we’re made of iron, after all), it can make cooking Read more…
Chromium-6 is the cancer-causing metal made famous in the 2000 film Erin Brockovich, which starred Julia Roberts. Is history repeating itself? According to a study published on September 20, 2016 by the Environmental Working Group, the unfortunate answer may be “yes”. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a “non-profit, non-partisan Read more…
As a student, taxpayer, or employee, we have certain expectations of how and what water should be in the places we are during our daily lives. Are you a dentist? Are your patients rinsing with unfiltered water? The Expectation Whether we are parents with children in school, taxpayers in our municipalities, patients Read more…
The word ‘free’ always conjures up a lot of excitement. When people are getting something for free, they are immediately enticed and excited. Everyone wants whatever they can have for little to no cost. Today, many different types of companies are using ‘free’ incentives to garner new customers. Everything Read more…
Soft water helps your skin and hair feel soft after bathing; but what about itchy skin rashes? As a child, perhaps you remember being down the Shore and your parents telling you that salt water was good for any skin ailments or rashes that you had. The salt water seemed Read more…
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